Wednesday, June 02, 2010

Cows, Cars, Houses or Milfs

I think Ketcham and his crew have a perfect balance of skill, style, cartooniness and observation.I have a Dennis comic that has some wonderful drawings of cows, cars, housesand of course, milfs.I want to do a post on one of these things they excel at.

Some of my favorite comics when I was about eight years old were back issues of the Dennis the Menace comics that dealt with travel. Stuff like Dennis in Yellowstone. Dennis in California. Etc. They really made me want to visit the National Parks. The folk who wrote and illustrated those comics were extremely talented. Dennis was a little asshole, but always hilarious.

Really weird point of view from a print cartoonist as opposed to an animation cartoonist: Ketcham drew panel boxes like nobody else. They were organic and alive.

Organic line quality is really important in print, possibly more so than any other medium. He varied his outlines and in his interior lines, he used different fonts for speech balloons intelligently and smoothly. Notice Dennis' font is different from his mothers... the font is serif but readable.